Unique Challenges
Furniture manufacturers are faced with increasing competition from both foreign and domestic suppliers. Operational challenges include increased product complexity and variety along with increased pressure to reduce order lead times while improving quality. Only the most effective and efficient operations will grow and prosper.
The key is to focus on developing a waste-free, lean organization. Real-time data provides the tools for benchmarking and supporting on-going productivity enhancements. The sections below provide a brief list of the more prominent furniture manufacturing applications and the customers we've helped.
Popular Applications
| Line pacing display | |
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| APPLICATION |
Labor intensive assembly processes benefit from line pacing displays. A count down timer shows the time left in the current cycle. The goal is to add value to the product within the allowed target time. Display the time up to the takt time in green and any cycle overage in red. |
| PRODUCT |
87/705 Programmable Timer, XL Large Digital Single Line and Multiple Line |
| Goal count/Actual count/Piece variance display | |
| APPLICATION |
In order to meet customer demand products must be produced at the target rate. A takt-based target count along with the actual good part count and a calculated efficiency provides the information to consistently meet production goals. |
| PRODUCT |
87/805 Efficiency Display, XL Large Digital Single Line and Multiple Line |
| OEE plus display | |
| APPLICATION |
Furniture manufacturers use OEE to benchmark lean initiatives. In addition to real-time OEE, your choice of more than 100 production variables such as average cycle time, a takt-based target count and more can be displayed. The programmability of the XL Series allows the user to reprogram the display at any time to show production variables relevant to their needs. |
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Furniture Manufacturers Customers
The following represents just of few of the many customers in the furniture manufacturing industry that we've helped with our solutions.
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• Comfort Designs |
• La-Z-Boy |
